T-Mobile bails on HSPA+ 84 plans, heads straight for LTE

T-Mobile on Tuesday revealed from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that it is abandoning plans to update its current HSPA+ network with speedier HSPA+ 84 technology. The nations’s No.4 carrier currently supports theoretical maximum download speeds of 42Mbps across much of its HSPA+ network. T-Mobile had previously announced intentions to upgrade its back end to double its theoretical download ceiling to 84Mbps, however in light of its recent announcement that it will adopt more modern Long Term Evolution technology for its 4G network, the carrier has decided that its resources are better spent on LTE. According to The Verge, T-Mobile will utilize the same 1900MHz spectrum it had intended for HSPA+ 84, and refarm it for LTE.

There is no point in making any network faster if they all have data caps. Useless if you have this speed and no room to use it. Its not that hard to get to 2 or 5 gb a month of data, especially on LTE.

Its like have a Lamborghini and living and never leaving the city of Chicago. 600hp doesn’t do you any good in traffic with pot holes. Once they remove data caps on all carriers, all this speed will be worth it and there will be option for ISP providers across the US.